#Best python modules thonny install#
#Best python modules thonny serial#

On an older Pi 3 however, Thonny was too old and simply reinstalling it didn’t work for me. If you have a Raspberry Pi, you will find Thonny is pre-installed - version 3.3.3 was found on a recent Pi 4 in my lab.

#Best python modules thonny install#

For Linux and Mac simply doing sudo apt install thonny or brew install thonny was all I needed. There is a downloader link at the top of the page for Windows. Instructions are clearly given on the project’s website. Although this is a new feature and classified as experimental, I found it reasonably stable to use and more than adequate for home lab use. Leaning about Thonny got me curious, and after a little digging I discovered that it has WebREPL support for MicroPython right out-of-the-box. If you read about the project and its development, you’ll see that he’s put a lot of effort into making Thonny, and it shows.

Thonny was designed to address common issues observed during six years of teaching Python programming classes to beginners. Thonny was introduced in 2015 by Aivar Annamaa of the University of Tartu in Estonia.

Bill was using Thonny, a Python IDE that is popular in the education community. I had all but given up when by chance I saw this video on the Dronebot Workshop channel about running MicroPython on the new Raspberry Pi Pico boards. mentioned in a recent podcast that he’s using telnet to access his wireless nodes, but he’s using esp-link on an ESP8266, which means throwing another chip into the mix. While its functional, it just didn’t strike my fancy for some reason. Being lazy, I want to tinker with my ESP32 modules from the sofa, not drag my laptop into the kitchen or balcony to plug up a USB cable. įor over a year, I have been quite happy with rshell until I started working on these wireless nodes. If you prefer the command-line like me, there is rshell by one of the top MicroPython contributors.If you use Pycom boards or WiFy firmware, there are the pymakr plugins for Atom and Visual Studio.

#Best python modules thonny serial#

Use a serial terminal and ampy (maintained by since being dropped by Adafruit in 2018).

There are various ways to program these modules: I’ve been playing with a few MicroPython projects recently on several different embedded platforms, including a couple of ESP32 WiFi modules.